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Re: Bug with -o posix, local variables and assignment preceding builtins
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bug with -o posix, local variables and assignment preceding builtins |
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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:38:26 -0500 |
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On 2/7/10 8:33 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote:
> We encountered a strange bug while working on bash-completion. I was
> originally only able to reproduce this through a fairly elaborate setup
> but Freddy Vulto <fvulto@gmail.com> found a tiny test case:
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> set -o posix
> t() {
> local x
> BAR=a eval true
> }
> BAR=b; t; echo $BAR
>
> Bash documentation claims the following (section 6.11 point 23):
See if the attached patch does the trick.
Chet
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